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Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright, I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
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The Nature of Defiant Sin
Commentators explain that "presumptuous sins" are not accidental mistakes but willful, arrogant acts of defiance against God. They stem from pride and self-confidence, where one knowingly chooses to transgress. David's prayer is a plea for God to restrain him from such high-handed rebellion.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Keep back your servant also - Restrain your servant; or, do not allow him to commit those sins.
From presumptuous sin…
19th Century
Anglican
Presumptuous sin. — The Hebrew term, derived from a root meaning “boil up” or “over,” is properly masculine, and always elsewhere …
Baptist
Let them not have dominion over me:
For, when a man once sins presumptuously, the tendency is for him to become a slave to that sin,…
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16th Century
Protestant
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. By presumptuous sins he means known and evident transgressions, accompanied wi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous [sins] Some understand these words of persons: the Septuagint, and the…
God's word warns the wicked not to continue in his wicked way, and warns the righteous not to turn from his good way. There is a reward, not only a…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Earlier, the psalmist gave thanks in many ways for the favors he had received and hoped for. Now he rises from considering these favors t…
